Comments on: Technical Document PDFs on the Kindle DX

By: Kindle Review Blog

Kindle Review Blog — Tue, 10 May 2011 16:56:06 +0000

I’ve put together a detailed review of Kindle DX PDF capabilities feature by feature – http://blogkindle.com/2009/06/kindle-dx-pdf-support-review/

By: jacka

jacka — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 14:20:17 +0000

Hey guys,

I`m interested in a reader that can zoom the PDF files. For example if you want to read a scientific article which has a lot of equations and the font is small, you may need to zoom it in.

Anyone knows a good e-reader that has this zooming feature?

By: Nick Djinn

Nick Djinn — Sat, 05 Feb 2011 00:48:45 +0000

The Onyx Boox M90 will be out in March and not only reads PDFs well but you can textflow the font size and images, which to my knowledge is currently not possible with the Kindle of any variety. Its a 10 inch reader.

Also, the Onyx Boox M90 has a great screen and Wacom non glare touch screen, with stylus only, but you can take notes and go on google.

By: exapted

exapted — Sat, 15 May 2010 08:28:40 +0000

Questions for all Kindle DX users:
(1) Is it possible to set bookmarks throughout a PDF document, and retain all of them the next time you open that PDF? It would solve the navigation problem. The only other good option would be to append a modified 1-page table of contents to the PDF, with the actual pdf document page numbers (often the PDF document page numbers don’t match the book page numbers).
(2) I have some PDFs that are scanned, but because of OCR the text can be highlighted, copied to clipboard, etc. I’m wondering, will I be able to keyword search those PDFs? I have heard that such search is “disabled” for “scanned image” PDFs. But what about PDFs that are scanned images and include the actual characters too?
(3) Does the dictionary work inside a PDF?
(4) How fast is it to quickly page through a PDF?

And by the way, for people who are worried about margins: I’m trying to figure out the most convenient way to crop PDF files before putting them onto an ereader. I’ll try out http://pdfcrop.sourceforge.net/ and some others and report my experience. Maybe if it works out I can create a script to automate some parts of the process. Anyway, if you are at all technically proficient, I don’t think auto-cropping should be a big huge factor in which ebook you purchase, since there are many other factors to consider, not many choices, and cropping is an issue you can resolve by simply pre-processing all of your PDFs.

By: Will

Will — Thu, 06 May 2010 23:12:41 +0000

Google k2pdfopt for a PDF optimizer that allows technical articles to be read on a Kindle 2.

By: Kindle DX

Kindle DX — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 10:53:42 +0000

I just wanted to add my review to confirm that PDF support works great. One thing I love about the PDF on the Kindle DX is that it shows page numbers rather than the units of measure the regular ebooks use that I still don’t understand.

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Do any of you have a Kindle e-book reader? - Page 2 - Tennessee Gun Owners — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 15:07:54 +0000

[...] I would get the DX. The PDFS on the kindle 1 and 2 look bad but on the DX they look pretty good. Technical Document PDFs on the Kindle DX — Matthew Williams __________________ Cheap .22 LR fun. [...]

By: Daniel

Daniel — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 16:04:53 +0000

Hey Matt, did you ever try Nirmal’s document? Pics?

By: Elizabeth

Elizabeth — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 18:37:38 +0000

Hi,

Have you tried loading a PDF that came as an ILL, or off JSTOR?

Elizabeth

By: Roscoe

Roscoe — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 23:36:25 +0000

You just sold a DX for amazon; you should get a kick back or something. This is what I’ve been waiting for, hope you still love it.